Six years ago…

Posted on September 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colour, Dorothy Clive garden, Garden, Life, Orange, Photo, Plants, Rhododendrons, Spring /summer2 Comments

Bright flowers, photo taken six years ago. I think it’s a rhododendron, glowing like an orange sun. Talk about flower power. I’m not going to try and duplicate or mirror this photo because it’s really stand alone.

This would have been taken at the Dorothy Clive Garden on the Shropshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire border. It has a quarry garden at the top of its slope which is full of beautiful rhododendrons in late spring and early summer. Do visit if you can. Visiting has been limited due to the virus but I do know they are open and you can find out more from their website.

Hanging baskets

Posted on August 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colour, Environment, Flowers, Fun, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Nature, Plants, Summer, WeatherLeave a comment

Looking great now they have been well watered. The hot weather is really hard on them. If you look at them they wilt. But it’s worth the effort. Lots of colour and different plants. There are lobelia, petunias, begonias, pelargonium and other flowers in them.

It’s spectacular at this time of year.

Second idea

Posted on July 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bright, College, Drawing, Experiment, Fireworks, Fun, Illustration, Life, Picture, VariationsLeave a comment

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Fireworks. That’s what this is called. This is my second variation using four initial A6 images on an A3 page. I played with the background I did yesterday, with more black ink, more shading, but I added iridescent white to brighten plus thin strips of paper to try and make little explosions to brighten it.

Next step may be to swap a couple of images. I might cut into one or two of them. We will see….

My own flowers

Posted on June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colours, Flowers, Gardening, Heat, Morning glory, Nasturtium, Poppies, Rain, Summer, susunshine, Torrential thunder storms, Water, Weather2 Comments

Last year, painting of morning glory flowers and some poppies. I haven’t grown much from seeds this year. We do have some lettuce plants, but they have probably been drowned by the amount of torrential rain we’ve been having over the past few days. Some places have had a months rain in a day! That compared with six weeks of sunshine in April and May. As usual our weather is topsy-turvy. Basically because of where the United Kingdom is positioned. We get weather from every direction, the Atlantic, the Arctic, Siberia, even dust dragged up from the Sahara. We are a weather magnet!

I want to go and get some seeds and see if I can grow some nasturtiums for late summer bedding, and the butterfly caterpillars love them. They are a nice, spicy, bitter and peppery orange flavour when added to salads and cold soups.

Colour/color

Posted on December 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Bright, Color, Colour, Creative, Curves, Design, Digital art, Digital drawings, Free app, Fun, Layout, photo editor, Poem, Poetry, WordsLeave a comment

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Zing, pow, wow, words

Colour, fields, world

Splashing, crashing, dashing

Down new ways and old.

Bold, hidden, subtle, explosions.

Harsh or soft.

Voom va voo.

Give me 54321…..

Lift off!

Colour or color

don’t care how you spell it..

Just share it!

The English countryside in Autumn

Posted on November 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Bright, Cold, Falling leaves, Food, Leaves, Life, Sunshine4 Comments

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We just came back from lunch at a pub called the Red Lion in Werrington, Staffordshire. Lovely food, and a view from the restaurant over the Staffordshire countryside. The leaves are still falling. There are some beautiful colours. It was clear and the sky was a cold blue. It was good to be snug and warm inside. Now I’ve got to get ready for a craft fair tomorrow. I need to finish a couple of paintings a d add some ribbon… Back to work…

Sunset

Posted on September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beautiful, Black, Blue, Bright, Colours, Firey, Maroon, Orange, Purple, Red, Sky, Sunset, YellowLeave a comment

When the sun set tonight it as like the sky was on fire. A deep purple/blue shading down to maroon, red, orange and then yellow.

I’m not sure I have quite the right colours on my phone camera, they seem slightly more intense, but that’s to do with how the eye accommodates in low light levels.

Whatever the colours the reality was spectacular. Beautiful. Colourful. Awesome. I would have liked to see the horizon but I was going into choir practice and didn’t have the time to drive over the other side of the hill.

Thunder and lightning

Posted on July 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bolt of lightning, Bright, Electric, Lightning, Rain, Storm, Thunder, Thunder and lightning, Weather, Well watered plants2 Comments

After such a hit humid day Britain is now being hit by big thunderstorms. I watch an app called blitzortnung and you can see lightening strikes from around the world. He thunderstorms that we’re here an hour ago have moved up towards the North East of the country, but it looks like another line of storms is on its way up from the Midlands. I tried to take some photos but the first few didn’t work very well because my phone camera was on automatic. By the time it had decided on an exposure the flash was gone (orange coloured sky photos caused by street lamps) then I realised if I set lit on the basic manual mode I would get quicker ictures despite the view on the camera being darker. The purplish photos were from doing that. I managed to actually catch a bolt of lightning! The bright one, like daylight was just an extremely bright flash.

Now its raining again. No doubt we will have more but its 3.39am….

Goodnight

Purple

Posted on May 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bright, Colour, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, PurpleLeave a comment

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Bright purple, showy, flared.

Full of energy,

Life, fun.

Zing-ING, splashed, clamouring

For attention.

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Add purple and it blasts through,

Flights of fancy

High pitched song,

Not calm pink

Or barmy blue

Gaudy yellow

Green screen

Orange spice

Ruddy red.

But purple, violet, lavender, plum, grape

Mix blue, red and white

Purple delight

Sunny day

Posted on March 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Bright, Grass, Life, Negative, Photography, Plants, Sun, SunlightLeave a comment

The sun was warm today although it remains low in the sky. These tall grass heads were back lit by it. The sun was also reflecting on the metal fence. I couldn’t see the image properly as the sun was dazzling me.

I’ve done a few edits to the photo in black and white…

The negative image in particular looks quite alien.

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